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This might work for the most privileged class of software developers with the most clout, but I'm pretty sure that most devs don't have the luxury of informing

• lugg 8y ago
  You need to find a better employer.
  • dempseye 8y ago
    I wasn't talking about myself, but some colleagues I have elsewhere. I pretty much come and go as I please, define the technical direction of the product and get paid handsomely for it. Devs are still treated like children in many companies.
• jarym 8y ago
  Agreed. More likely that management will say ‘don’t use that dependency’ or ‘we will write our own from scratch’
• kqr 8y ago
  I'm sure you may be correct in regards to some areas of the world, but where I am, software engineers are paid very well. That means low supply and high demand. That means you probably have more leverage than you think. If your employer is dumb and don't realize that's why they pay you so much, you can probably exchange some of that high pay for more respect by going elsewhere, taking at most a slight cut to your pay. If it's about personal insecurity (it used to be for me), think of it this way: all that money they give you? It's because they want you to be a professional, which involves informing management of when you take corrective action based on your expert knowledge. I'm not telling you to be dumb about it. Sometimes it does notmakes business sense to run on maintained software. But if it does, and your manager may not know that, they trust you to have the integrity to inform them. Any good manager, that is.